Alexander Michaeletos

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Alexander Michaeletos is a South-African child actor.

Michaeletos (also credited as Michaletos) made his film and acting debut recently, in the 2005 film Duma, directed by Carroll Ballard. He stars as Xan, a twelve-year-old boy who befriends a cheetah called Duma, and acts with Eamonn Walker, Campbell Scott, and Hope Davis.


Alex was discovered by the casting directors after an exhaustive international search that took them to New York, London, Canada, Chicago, and finally to to his home country of South Africa.

Alex is now 15, and his own home life very much resembles the life of his big-screen character's Xan. Not only are their names very similar but, like Xan in the film, Alex too resides on a South African farm surrounded by lions, cheetahs, leopards, African wild dogs and lots of antelope. However, while Xan was an only child, Alex himself has five siblings.

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